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my Patreon patron-only blog : Obituaries (and how writing them sucks,
Since building myself a Patreon author page, I've also been posting to a password-protected patron-only blog. I thought it might be worth reprinting the occasional post here, for the sake of general...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse : Kate Schapira + Valerie Witte co-interview,
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the thirteenth interview is now online: Co-Interview: Kate Schapira [pictured] + Valerie Witte. Other interviews from my tenure...
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Stephanie Lenox, The Business
ON METAPHORYour boss is an ass. Your pay, shit.Each day feels like two, every task pointingto another: the nine-to-five multiplying paperwork.No wonder you’re tired, two bosses on your back,the boss of...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mark Lamoureux
Mark Lamoureux lives in New Haven, CT. His work has been published in print and online in Elderly, Denver Quarterly, Jacket, Jacket2, Fourteen Hills and many others. He is the author of 4 full-length...
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Stuart Ross, A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent
The wooden bench at the bus stop is scarred with cigarette burns. Somebody’s big brother did it. A bus pulls up and a man steps off. He wears a hat and carries a briefcase. Every day he steps off the...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Rob MacDonald on Sixth Finch
Rob MacDonald lives in Boston and is the editor of Sixth Finch. His poems can be found in Gulf Coast, jubilat, Washington Square, BOAAT, Birdfeast, H_NGM_N and other journals. He is the author of...
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Monty Reid, Meditatio Placentae
I came out too, with just as much necessity but noneof the adoration. I have to assume the world will contain us.Not the mother, or the child, but something unembraceableand always between this place...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Steven Karl
Steven Karl is the author of Dork Swagger (Coconut Books) and Sister(Noemi Press). His chapbooks and collaborative chapbooks have been published by Flying Guillotine Press, Peptic Robot Press, Lame...
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Zach Savich, The Orchard Green and Every Color
You don’t need to paint faces in the treesThere are faces alreadyToday is an open letterRead it to meTo everything, lemon addedThis appetite doesn’t signal deficiencyThe final step of transplanting is...
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Solmaz Sharif, Look
I place a photograph of my uncle on my computer desktop, which means I learn to ignore it. He stands by a tank, helmet tilting to his right, bootlaces tightened as if stitching together a wound. Alive...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Vivek Shraya
Vivek Shraya is a Toronto-based artist whose body of work includes several albums, films, and books. Her first novel, She of the Mountains, was named one of The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2014. Her...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse : Mary Kasimor interviews George Farrah
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the thirteenth interview is now online:Mary Kasimor interviews George Farrah [photo by Ted Hall]. Other interviews from my tenure...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Eléna Rivera
Eléna Riverawas born in Mexico City, and spent her formative years in Paris. She has also lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montréal and Providence, Rhode Island. She now resides in New York...
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above/ground press 23rd anniversary parties in Toronto and Ottawa!
above/ground press turned twenty-three years old this summer, which means I'm hosting not one, but two anniversary parties!Toronto ON: 7:30pm, Thursday, August 25: a series of readings by Braydon...
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Ploughshares : an interview with Diane Schoemperlen
Until the end of 2016, I'm a monthly blogger over at the Ploughshares blog! And my second post is now up: an interview with award-winning Kingston writer Diane Schoemperlen, author of the new memoir...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Stephen Maher
Stephen Maher is a novelist and journalist based in Ottawa. In 2012, he published his first novel, Deadline, a political thriller. As an investigative journalist, he has received a National Newspaper...
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Announcing the winners of the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Prize!
I recently judged the National Competition of the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Prize (named after the late American poet; see my obituary for her here), counterbalancing the judge of the Regional...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Megan Pugh
Megan Pugh is the author of America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk (Yale UP, 2015). Her criticism and poetry have appeared in The Believer, Better, Denver Quarterly, La Petite Zine, The New...
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my Patreon patron-only blog : Tales of my father: creative non-fiction and on...
Since building myself a Patreon author page, I've also been posting to a password-protected patron-only blog. I thought it might be worth reprinting the occasional post here, for the sake of general...
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Hemingway floats, Now this old man has ripened sweetly. Jane Munro, Blue SonomaA sextet tale of cats, domesticated. Sing: poly, poly. The sun sets and it...
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